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DESPITE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND THE EFFORTS OF some of the best minds in medicine, the search for an AIDS vaccine has yet to yield an effective cure. Now one of the world's leading AIDS researchers wants to try a new weapon: a "molecular knife" that disables the virus by slicing up its genetic code...
With 18 seconds remaining in the third quarter and Harvard up 14-0, Yale's only weapon, tall junior tailback Keith Price, looked ready to jump-start the Eli's broken-down wishbone. He tore up the massive hole in the left side and drove up. Price pumped his long, lean legs, while Harvard junior James Ellis did what he's done all season: played catch-up and won. He clipped Price's knees and the junior stumbled onto the four yard line...
...sound bites and imagemakers, the paid political program has acquired an earnest but dreary air. The form has survived primarily as a weapon for fringe candidates like Lyndon LaRouche and as an election-eve ritual for major-party candidates, who by then are usually preaching to the converted. Perot, however, made half-hour political ads the centerpiece of his campaign -- with astonishing success. His first program, a lecture on the economy that aired in early October, drew a higher rating than the baseball play-off game it preceded. Though ratings dropped for subsequent broadcasts, Perot's month-long mini-series...
FOREIGN POLICY. Reagan was supposed to be -- and was -- naive on foreign matters. He thought the evil empire could be stymied with a magic weapon, the "defensive" Star Wars. He also thought that weapon so purely defensive that its technology could be shared with the Soviet Union. Reagan outdid both extremes of his own party. He dismayed the hard-liners he had himself assembled and taken to Reykjavik by calling for total disarmament, but not before he had dismayed the moderates with obstructive measures like the all- or-nothing "zero option" for European missiles. Reagan started slowly in foreign affairs...
...have to beat the Big Green on the field today, and your best hope is to use the weapon you've slyly held in reserve during the 22 years you've coached here: the element of surprise. So throw the Multiflex offense out for a half. Operate with an unbalanced line. Wear a tie-dye T-shirt. Do anything and everything that is out of character for you and your Harvard team...